LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2301, 12 July 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

AI last night's Council meeting accounts amounting to £2,853 Is 3d were passed for payment. It was decided at last night's Council meeting (o purchase 1,200 two-year pinu- insignis trees for planting at the Target Reserve. According to I lie Government Statistician’s quarterly statement, Hamilton is the dearest town in New Zealand to live in. while Waihi is the cheapest.

If was decided at ia.-t night's Council meeting to communicate with Air Blackman, of Masterlon. and ask him for a full report on the condition of the local gasworks. Cr. Barber stated a! the Ilorowhonun County Council meeting on Saturday that the main channel of the Manawatu River had shifted lo the western side of mid-stream at the Shannon-Foxton bridge, which removed the danger of further erosion from the eastern approach. Mr W. F. Massey has received many felicitations in London on en-tering-upon his 10th year ns Prime Minister of New Zealand. Mr Lloyd George insisted upon being photographed with Mr Massey at Downing Street.

“It is no sinecure to he a stationmaster in the North Island at the present time,” said Mr J. L. Morgan, at a railway social at Palmerston North. “The responsibilities and worries consequent upon the position are sufficient to drive any ordinary man to Porirua. As they are now, it is a most difficult proposition for railway men to keep things running to the satisfaction of the public aud the men in the service. <Ye are up against a big job to keep the railway going until the line is duplicated from Wellington to Auckland.

Most of the Council’s time at last night’s meeting ' was occupied in committee in connection with tend-ers-for the sewerage and water works.

At last night’s Council meeting the Poundkceper reported as follows: —“During the month of June 27 head of stock were impounded by the ranger, and driving fees amounting to 14s were collected.

The Foxton Auctioneering Company invite entries of ail kinds for next Saturday’s mart sale. Particulars of entries “should be supplied by 10 a.m. on Thursday, so that ■ >ame can be advertised. The “Kor-Ker” tyre demonstration attracted a number of motorists in front of the Town Hall on Saturday afternoon' who expressed satisfaction with the trial and the efficiency of “Kor-Iver.”

A woman named Alice Harper was lined £2 at the Police Court at Auckland on a charge of fortunetelling.. The assistant police matron, who gave evidence, said that defendant told her that her mother suffered from a weak heart, and would die in 18 months.

Those present at last night’s Council'meeting were: —His Worship the Mayor (John Chrystall, Esq.), and Councillors Bryant, Whiblev, Smith, Rand, Ross, Martin, Coley, Thompson. Art apology was received from Cr. Walker. The engineer, Mr Climie, was also in attendance.

At last night’s Council meeting Mr Bishop waited on the Council and asked that a culvert bo constructed across the drain in front of his -residence in Union Street. It was decided, after hearing Mi' Bishop, that the Council construct the culvert on condition that applicant pay cost of same. John Douglas Robertson, charged with having sold a pamphlet on Rus-' sia which encouraged violence, was lined £5 by Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., at Auckland yesterday, who said that, although the print encouraged violence, it would not cause a revolution here, but the evil must be nvoided as much as possible by presenting the distribution of mental poison of this sort. Leave to appeal was granted. The Plunket Society throughout the Dominion is making effort to educate the public, with regard to the damage Ip health and danger to life by allowing infants to sleep in bed with their parents. “As an evidence that such education is needed, the fact is cited that in the Dominion last year thirteen babies were killed by being overlain in bed. The annual report of the Society

says: "How many babies who escaped death have been weakened and more or less damaged for life by this cue I custom?"

"Ailit years of experience ami experimenting'-' stated Mr Will Appleton, in an address on "Advertising and Commerce/’ at Cliristelmreh, "I have found that- a newspaper can take the place of a hoarding for advertising purposes, hut a hoarding cannot take the place of a newspaper. Mr Appleion was asked if hoardings could compete with newspapers. He said newspaper.-, presented a superior medium because they penetrated into the homes of hundreds of thousands, aud -cost was much less than for hoarding advertising. Newspaper advertising was the most economical agency.”

Twenty-one identification discs, recovered from Gallipoli Peninsula, have been received by the War Graves Branch of the Internal affairs Department. In some of the cases which are represented by the discs the soldiers were reported “Killed in action: Court of Inquiry,” and the discovery of the identification wifi set at rest any doubt that may have existed. Certain discs from ‘Till 60” were recovered during the operation of concentrating the bodies interred there in a central cemetery. The discs will be forwarded Lo the next-of-kin of the deceased.

A peculiar story of the Maori's credulity was told in the Wairon Magistrate’s Court, where a Maori was charged with false pretences. It was alleged that accused claimed that “Wa,” a high power, had revealed to him that gold was to be produced at the Mahia. He had built an immense basket a chain long, and where the basket was the gold would come. The evidence was to the effect tlial the other Maoris had been appealed to for money for a share in the gold, .which one native said would go on for ever. Several of the Maoris put money on the lloor, but there was no evidence that accused had taken it up. The magistrate dismissed the ease.

Sunday was the ninth anniversary of the formation of tho Massey Government. The Mackenzie Government, which was formed on March 28th, 1012, was defeated on a no-confidence motion, moved by Mr Massey, as Leader of' the Opposition, on July 6th, 1912, by 41 votes to 33, Mr Massey and the members of his first Cabinet were sworn in and assumed office on July 10th. The National Government came into existence on Augubt 6th, 1915, and it held office until August, 1919, when its administration was terminated by the withdrawal of Sir Joseph Ward and his colleagues of che Liberal Party. With the exceplon of the late Mr Seddon’s record ■„erm of 13 years’ Premiership, Mr Massey has held the reigns of office .onger than the head of any other New Zealand Ministry.